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Ha! Possibly. Although they were all available when I got mine at 10

Well... you're not going to be on your own!

The booking fees are always irritating. £15 a day for the car parking is a bit of a p1ss take! Booked thru an app across the road for a fiver. That'll teach 'em 😂

Maybe a bit of empathy wouldn't go amiss. I'll have a moan but we'll be there as one day my daughter might decide she's too 'cool' to come (possibly sat in your season ticket seats😂). However, I'm also aware we're in a fortunate position where we can afford to do it. There are plenty of people who have been supporters for a long time who have been completely priced out. You can surely understand that they are angry?

No idea why that posted three times 🙄

Absolutely agree. I was in no way defending the prices. I thinks it's a joke.

Absolutely agree. I was in no way defending the prices. I thinks it's a joke.

Based on the justification they gave for the SON prices last year it was £400k to put the event on at Belle Vue. I'm sure there's some savings reducing to 2 nights but it's still not going to be cheap. Sadly, my price predictions were pretty much spot on when they announced this but I still think they'll sell out. Unfortunately, they're going to annoy a lot of supporters in the process. You were shifting in the region of 30,000 tickets for Cardiff so the thinking will now be that at least a quarter of them would pay "premium" prices. 16000(ish) over 2 nights at an average of £90 a ticket is just over £1.4m. I wonder who is underwriting this if they have got it wrong?

Yep

But surely if you are picking a venue for the one British Grand Prix it's a consideration? Effectively shutting out 20k people who want to go?

I think 30% is generous from where we were sat. They would have all been under cover if someone had taken a fishing umbrella!

The cost for the SoN was around £400k wasn't it? If that's right 6000 at £50 a head doesn't break even. You'd need to sell some stack of pies and pints to fill in that shortfall. I paid £190 for me and my teenage daughter to go to the SoN. 3 of us went to Cardiff for about £60. 6000 is also only 25% of the supposedly terrible crowd at Cardiff. I think a GP at the NSS would be great but I can't see how it flies without tickets well over £75 each and a guaranteed sell out. I'd be thinking twice about putting my money in based on the SoN experience.

I decided a while ago that the track staff at Sheffield are the speedway equivalent of Schrödinger's cat. If I go to Owlerton every meeting and see people dragging the dirt back after every heat but the British Speedway Forum says they don't exist, are they really there, or are they both there, and not there simultaneously?

That's good news. I couldn't decide whether Lemon was just trying to justify the prices and get people through the gate or if he was serious. I know that area has had massive regeneration and think it's a great facility. The point is that there's not many opportunities for this to be replicated.

Exactly! You don't have to look far on the internet to find questions being asked of Manchester City Council's funding decision. Mark Lemon hinted on the British Speedway Podcast that they might not be able to stay there if they can't bring in international events. I'd be interested to know the financials of the SoN.